Friday 3 January 2020

AO #3

The explanation is that, despite his attempt at linking desire to a fundamental YES, Lyotard reintroduces lack and absence into desire; maintains desire under the laws of castration, at the risk of restoring the entire signifier along with the law; and discovers the matrix of the figure in fantasy, the simple fantasy that comes to veil desiring-production, the whole of desire as effective production. (244)